Comments on: “Beer-money hard-pulp cyber-opera”, or “Defining the indefinable” http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/beer-money-hard-pulp-cyber-opera-or-defining-the-undefinable/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Martin Wisse http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/beer-money-hard-pulp-cyber-opera-or-defining-the-undefinable/comment-page-1/#comment-3199 Martin Wisse Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:21:02 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/beer-money-hard-pulp-cyber-opera-or-defining-the-undefinable/#comment-3199 It was Damon Knight who coined that particular phrase and I'm afraid, like so many before and after you, you are using it wrongly: he never meant it to say that what you or I define as science fiction is science fiction, but that science fiction is defined by the science fiction community as a whole, what you and I agree together is science fiction. Though obviously that will never be an exact science. And RATM is sooo not metal. Though Sick of it All and Biohazard so obviously are... It was Damon Knight who coined that particular phrase and I’m afraid, like so many before and after you, you are using it wrongly: he never meant it to say that what you or I define as science fiction is science fiction, but that science fiction is defined by the science fiction community as a whole, what you and I agree together is science fiction. Though obviously that will never be an exact science.

And RATM is sooo not metal. Though Sick of it All and Biohazard so obviously are…

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